THIRD WIVES CLUB

Melania Trump Opens Up About Botox and Getting Donald’s Number

After her husband swept five Republican primaries Tuesday evening, Melania Trump followed Donald onstage for a victory speech. For more than half an hour, Melania, in a body-hugging black dress, barely moved beyond blinking. Her face, framed by her signature cascading waves, smoldered but seemed to be stuck, apart from a few measured smiles. It was her 46th birthday.

In an interview with GQ, however, the third Mrs. Trump scoffed at the assertion that she has frozen her face with injectable poisons and augmented her breasts, as many have speculated. “I didn’t make any changes,” she said. “A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn’t do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I’m against Botox, I’m against injections; I think it’s damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It’s all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.”

The former model also opened up about her father, a Slovenian businessman who she says reminds her a lot of her husband. “They’re both very smart and very capable. They grew up in totally different environments, but they have the same values, they have the same tradition,” she said. “I myself am similar to my husband. Do you understand what I mean? So is my dad; he is a family man, he has tradition, he was hardworking. So is my husband.” (GQ pointed to Slovenian police records that show her father was charged with a tax offense, which Melania flatly denied: “We have a clean past. I don’t have nothing to hide.”)

It was not these similarities that initially drew Donald and Melania together when they met at a party during New York Fashion Week in the fall of 1998. Rather, it was the dogged pursuit of Donald, who was 52 at the time and approached the then successful 28-year-old catalogue model, despite the fact that he had come to the party with a different date. The billionaire developer who, at that point, had a well-established reputation for his high-flying life and highly publicized love affairs gone wrong, sent his date off to the bathroom in order to have a few minutes bending Melania’s ear, GQ reported. “I had my life, I had my world. I didn’t follow Donald Trump and what kind of life he had,” Melania told the magazine.

But she knew enough to not give him her phone number when he asked. “If I give him my number, I’m just one of the women he calls,” she said. It was also a test, of course, to see if he’d give her his business phone number or his personal line. The kind of number a man gives is telling, Melania explained, though it is unclear what exactly that tells you. Either way, he gave her all of his numbers, and she waited a week to call him anyway. “We had a great connection, we had great chemistry, but I was not starstruck. And maybe he noticed that.”

The couple married in 2005, and a year later, welcomed son Barron, who Melania sometimes refers to as “Little Donald,” according to GQ. He wants to be a businessman and golfer, and is perennially in a suit. “He’s not a sweatpants child,” the magazine quotes.

Their relationship works because of their deep understanding of their individual needs. Resurfacing an older interview with Melania, GQ quotes Melania gushing about how Donald had welcomed her taking time for herself. “If I say, ‘I need an hour, I’m going to take a bath,’ or I’m having a massage, he doesn’t have nothing against it. He’s very supportive in that way.”

There you have it, the key to a lasting third marriage: unbridled acceptance of your spouse’s spa treatments. Melania Trump is already making America great again.